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82 mends that road, it will never be possible for a carriage to pass it with safety, as great part of it lies upon a shelf hanging over the lake.

Close by Tyndrum are great lead mines. In Glen Fillan is a holy well, famous for curing diseases. The water that runs by Tyndrum is called the Fillan, and rises about a mile above the house, in those huge hills hanging over the road to Fort William. There is a very pretty fall of the Fillan a short way north of the inn; this water is, in fact, the chief source of the river Tay, and is so called, when it runs from Loch Dochart.

When I was at Tyndrum, I wished to see Glen Coe.

From Tyndrum to King's House inn, 18 miles. At the inn, or hut, halfway thither, you can get nothing but meal and water for your horses. The road to King's House is very hilly, but that part of it over the Black Mount (a district so called), which was, some time back, the worst part of it, is now the best. The road is very bad about Auch, three miles from Tyndrum; but look at the hills, particularly those around you when you cross a stream at Auch, which runs out of those mountains. Four miles farther, when you cross the Orchy river by